A preschool teacher at the \u201cLeptiri\u0107\u201d kindergarten in Vr\u0161ac forgot a three-and-a-half-year-old boy in the bathroom, locked the door, and went home, while his mother, Dijana Katilovi\u0107, was told that someone else had already taken him home. And no, this is not a movie scene\u2014this really happened a month ago. Outraged because, as she claims, the kindergarten administration is trying to cover up the incident, Dijana has decided to file a lawsuit against the institution and publicly share what happened to her son, who is still seeing a psychologist and dealing with trauma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dijana Katilovi\u0107 from Vr\u0161ac described for Nova.rs the horrifying situation her child experienced on February 23 at the \u201cLeptiri\u0107\u201d kindergarten, which operates within the preschool institution \u201c\u010carolija\u201d in this city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOn that day I came to pick up my child at around 4 p.m. His teachers had already gone home, while children who stay after 3 p.m. are taken to a supervising room with a duty teacher. When I asked for him, they told me someone had already taken him home. I was shocked and screamed at the top of my lungs,\u201d the shaken mother told our portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As she further explains, she immediately started shouting, and a woman from the street told her to go to the police station nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI called our teacher, and she called the duty teacher. In the meantime, they unlocked the kindergarten, and the teacher who had locked him in arrived. The child was in the bathroom, red from crying, exhausted. She admitted she had locked him in and forgotten about him. He was inside much longer than she claims\u2014two or three minutes. Because by the time I called one teacher, she called the other, and until she arrived\u2026 more than ten minutes had passed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She apologized, but\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As Dijana further explains, the teacher apologized, saying she had made a mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe wanted to talk to me, but I simply didn\u2019t want to, I couldn\u2019t. What was I supposed to talk to her about? I cannot forget the scene when I saw him like that. In her first statement she said there was another child in the room besides my son, and in the last one that there were six children. I cannot get the footage until we file a lawsuit through a lawyer, which I will do because I cannot allow this to be silenced.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the mother, the teacher gave two different versions of the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe completely lost track of how many children there were, she probably thought there were none left and went home. She also says she thought he had already gone home, and at the same time that she forgot him. So she has two stories. I don\u2019t even know her\u2014I saw her for the first time when she opened the door.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dijana says she remained silent until she saw how the preschool administration would respond. She expected, she says, that the teacher would be suspended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI didn\u2019t speak about this earlier because I wanted to wait and see what the kindergarten, or the director, would do. But since they did nothing, I realized they want to cover it up because we are not even allowed to talk about it. They took statements from both me and her, and that was it. I still haven\u2019t received any decision about what was done to her, although they said they would send it. Until then, she is working completely normally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n